I have been feeling like a part of me is missing lately. I realized the other day what it was. I miss my birth mom. I can’t help but to think about her, hope and pray that she is alive and well. I want to apologize to her for being angry with her for so long. I feel bad for even missing her because I have a family. I am afraid that if I do come in ( Read more... )

So I was talking to my a friend of mine and mentioned to her that I had gotten my birth mothers non identifying background info. During the discussion I mentioned that while I am not supposed to know her name I do because of a letter that I had found at one point snooping in things I wasn't supposed to be snooping in from my birth mother. She ( Read more... )

I'm meeting my birth mom whom I've had no contact with my entire life on 12/16. We're meeting at the adoption agency; she's bringing her husband & I'm bringing mine. Over the summer I received 16 bday cards (all but 9 years of my life) and a letter that she wrote the day after they took me away. I'm nervous but I'm meeting her the week after ( Read more... )

Hey, Arkansas: What the fuck? You idiots hate gay people so much that you voted to ban all unmarried couples from adopting or becoming foster parents? You understand that no matter how many times you call it the "gay adoption ban," the term "unmarried couples" includes straight couples too, right? Oh, and "Arkansas Family Council"? How can you ( Read more... )

Hi everyone, im new here so a quick intro: Im an adoptee (obviously), reunited with my birth mother for a year now, and have infrequent contact with my birth father for 3 months ( Read more... )

( Hitching on from the last post... )

I just joined this group and doing a blog is brand new ( Read more... )

Apologies if this isn't allowed (I haven't checked in all the comm's I'm about to post this in 'cause I've gotta get to bed before I go to work tonight)

adoptedintheuk

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I need advise on finding my real mom. Its a closed adoption and Ive been told there is no way to ever know. Is this true and if not how do i find them?

Hey guys, I need some advice. My intermediary has found and spoken with my four siblings. They want contact with me, even though our parents asked them not to. I've never thought about what I might ask my siblings, I've always thought about what I'd ask my parents. But my parents don't want contact with me and my siblings have told them it is not ( Read more... )